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title: She crept along trembling with cold and hunger--a very picture of so… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She crept along trembling with cold and hunger--a very picture of sorrow, the poor little thing! Who acts: maiden. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl, sentence 9

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She crept along trembling with cold and hunger--a very picture of sorrow, the poor little thing!

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**Who acts:** maiden · **What happens:** creep, tremble

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:24:9
# text = She crept along trembling with cold and hunger--a very picture of sorrow, the poor little thing!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	along	along	ADP	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past | maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tremble** | gerund | maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with cold and hunger | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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